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...sixth grade, most of us didn’t have to deal with the regret that inevitably follows taking one too many shots. We didn’t know about beer pong, or funnels, or Everclear, choosing instead to spend our time at awkward dances and single-sex sleepovers. But while we were crowding around the punch bowl in the school gym and playing video games in our basements, 15-year-old Rachel E. Porter was stuck watching drunken friends throw up all over themselves. She describes a particularly “traumatic” incident at the annual Dunster...
...three older siblings who went here, parents who are house masters, a dad who’s a professor, and a bedroom right over the Dunster dining hall, it would be hard to avoid getting stressed out by the college admissions process. For her, the pressure started in first grade, when her sister applied. Living in Dunster doesn’t always make having stellar grades and extracurriculars easy, she says, since “being at Dunster is equivalent to three extracurriculars because of the number of events...
...hours, she is pitching special seat belts and venison-jerky treats to a room of the curious over coffee and cookies. The group coos over colorful piles of chewable rubber and fuzzy toys, and a 7-year-old girl clings to a teddy bear with a "heartbeat." Despite the grade-schooler's enthusiasm, however, the toys are intended for a different breed of child: pets...
...case a year ago, Harvard had—prior to the third period—largely dictated the pace of play throughout, limiting the Wildcats’ forwards primarily to the perimeter and smothering those few rebounds that happened to slip away from Grumet-Morris while converting its own grade-A chances at the other...
...admitted to Miami Dade's honors program, students need either a minimum 3.7 high school grade-point average or 1800 on the new SAT (26 on the ACT), and they have to maintain a 3.5 GPA to stay in. More than half the 60 credits the students must complete have to be in challenging honors-level courses. Honors students are offered free courses in Europe or at top-flight schools like Smith College. In addition, some 90 four-year schools, including Smith and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, have agreements with Miami Dade that, in some cases, guarantee...